Learning Splunk

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Free Online Course: Learning Splunk provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Learning Splunk is taught by Josh Samuelson.

Overview
  • Make sense out of your systems data with Splunk. Learn how to analyze and search data from network, application, or database logs, and build reports and dashboards.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Learn Splunk
    • The learning environment
    • What is Splunk?
    • Install Splunk Free edition
    1. Tour of Major Features
    • Home app
    • Set up your Splunk user
    • Search
    • Reporting
    • Add-ons
    2. Search
    • Basics of the search interface
    • Simple filtering
    • Time
    • Understanding results: Fields
    • Complex filtering
    • Advanced search syntax
    • Challenge: Track down an issue
    • Solution: Track down an issue
    3. Reporting and Dashboards
    • Reporting overview
    • Create a simple report
    • Visualize errors
    • Create a dashboard panel
    4. Alerting
    • Alerting concepts
    • Create an alert
    • Advanced alerting
    • Challenge: Custom alert action
    • Solution: Advanced alerting
    5. Practical Splunk
    • Web app monitoring challenges
    • Install the universal forwarder
    • Configure remote data
    • Using multiple data streams
    • Beyond logs
    • Visualizing and alerts
    Conclusion
    • Next steps